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Pocket A Hidden History of Women's Lives, 1660-1900
ISBN: PB: 9780300253740, Yale University Press, April 2020
264 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women's everyday lives – from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen – and to explore...
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£19,99
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Playing the Game The History of Adidas
ISBN: HB: 9783791358307, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
400 pp., 25x23 cm, 160 colour illus.
Founded in a small town in Bavaria, Germany, the adidas brand has, for nearly a century, been outfitting international sports stars and pop culture icons such as David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane, and Run-DMC as well as everyday men, women, and children...
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£39,99
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Pretty Gentlemen Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World
ISBN: HB: 9780300217469, Yale University Press, March 2018
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
The term "macaroni" was once as familiar a label as "punk" or "hipster" is today. In this handsomely illustrated book devoted to notable 18th-century British male fashion, award-winning author and fashion historian Peter McNeil brings together dress,...
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£35,00
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Paris Refashioned 1957-1968
ISBN: HB: 9780300226072, Yale University Press, February 2017
252 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 110 colour illus., 15 black&white
A captivating look at Parisian fashions of the 1960s and how the ready-to-wear revolution influenced haute couture. The 1960s was one of the most exciting periods in fashion history, as shifting cultural paradigms were embraced by a generation of de...
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£35,00
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Printed Textile Design Profession, Trends and Project Development
ISBN: PB: 9788415967675, Hoaki, October 2015
192 pp., 28x21.5 cm, richly illustrated
This book walks us through the different aspects of textile design as a process and a profession. The authors describe the steps involved in projects within the fashion, home and garden sectors of textile design, and also examine the specific charact...
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£22,50
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Punk Chaos to Couture
ISBN: PB: 9780300191851, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2013
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.
Since its origins in the 1970s, punk has had an incendiary influence on fashion. With its eclectic mixing of stylistic references, punk effectively introduced the postmodern concept of bricolage not only into directional ready-to-wear but also into t...
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£19,99
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Pomp and Poverty A History of Silk in Ireland
ISBN: HB: 9780300170412, Yale University Press, April 2011
280 pp., 26.2x19.8 cm, 25 black&white illus., 135 colour illus.
Lustrous, warm, lightweight, strong silk has always been a symbol of wealth and status, beginning in prehistoric China. In "Pomp and Poverty: A History of Silk in Ireland", Mairead Dunlevy unfolds a colourful tale. She introduces us to the merchants...
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£50,00
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